Re: [Plib-devel] ssgVtxTable question

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

"Curtis L. Olson" wrote:

> I was taking a quick look at the new ssgVtxTable's tonight and trying
> to get a feel for how they work.  As I understand it, these take care
> of freeing up the memory used by the arrays fed to it, correct?

Yes - that was the main change I wanted to effect.

> I just want to double check to make sure I'm understanding this.

Yep.

> So in my application I can do something like:
> 
> for each structure {
>   ssgVertexArray *vl = new ssgVertexArray;
>   ssgNormalArray *nl = new ssgNormalArray;
>   ...
> 
>   // fill in these structures with my data
> 
>   ssgVtxTable( GL_WHATEVER, vl, nl, ... );
> }

Yes.
 
> So from the calling application I can just allocate all the arrays I
> need, hand them to ssgVtxTable, and completely forget about them after
> that, right?  ssg will free up the memory when the node is removed,
> right?

Right.

The arrays are reference counted - so you can use the same array
for multiple VtxTables and they'll be deleted only when they are
no longer needed.

-- 
Steve Baker                  http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
sjb...@ai... (home)  http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker
sj...@ht...      (work)